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Show 2 Monday, March 8, 2010 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchronicle.com All stories and photos from The Associated Press 8 Monday `Hurt Locker' named best picture LOS ANGELES The Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker" won best picture and five other prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow. Bigelow is the first woman in the 82-year history of the Oscars to earn Hollywood's top prize for filmmakers. "There's no other way to describe it. It's the moment of a lifetime," Bigelow said. "It's so extraordinary to be in the company of my fellow nominees, such powerful filmmakers, who have inspired me and I have admired, some of them for decades." Among those Bigelow and "The Hurt Locker" beat are ex-husband James Cameron and his sci-fi spectacle "Avatar." Bigelow and Cameron were married from 1989 to 1991. Cameron was seated right behind Bigelow at the Oscars and joined a standing ovation for her, clapping vigorously and saying, "Yes, yes" after she won. First-time winners took all four acting prizes: Sandra Bullock as best actress for "The Blind Side"; Jeff Bridges as best actor for "Crazy Heart"; Mo'Nique as supporting actress for "Precious"; and Christoph Waltz as supporting actor for "Inglourious Basterds." The Oscar marks a career peak for Bridges, a beloved Hollywood veteran who had been nominated four times in the previous 38 years without winning. Bridges, who played a boozy country singer trying to clean up his act, held his Oscar aloft and thanked his late parents, actor Lloyd Bridges and poet Dorothy Bridges. "Thank you, Mom and Dad, for turning me on to such a groovy profession," said Bridges, recalling how his mother would get her children to entertain at parties and his father would sit on the bed teaching him the basics of acting for an early part he landed on his dad's TV show "Sea Hunt." "I feel an extension of them. This is honoring them as much as it is me," Bridges said. Bullock, who had never before been nominated, won for her role as a wealthy woman who takes in homeless future NFL star Michael Oher, who was living on the streets as a teen. The award wraps up a wild year for Bullock, who had box-office smashes with "Blind Side" and "The Proposal" and a flop with "All About Steve," which earned her the worst- of polling booths waving fingers dipped in purple ink in a now-iconic image synonymous with Iraq's democracy. In one Baghdad neighborhood, relatives who had just lost a family member in a bombing walked down to the polling booth to vote. The violence was a direct challenge to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has gained popularity as violence across the country has plummeted. "I voted for Nouri al-Maliki because I trust him as a man who succeeded in getting rid of militias and building a strong state," said Saadi Mandi, a 43-year old engineer in the southern oil city of Basra. its authority. As recently as Tuesday, a subcommittee killed legislation that would have banned job discrimination against gay state employees. "It is my advice that the law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including 'sexual orientation,' gender identity,' gender expression,' or like classification, as a protected class within its nondiscrimination policy, absent specific F Kathryn Bigelow accepts the Oscar for best achievement in directing for"The Hurt Locker" from presenter Barbra Streisand at the 82nd Academy Awards on Sunday in the Hollywood. actress trophy at the Razzies the night before the Oscars. The supporting-acting winners capped remarkable years, Mo'Nique startling fans with dramatic depths previously unsuspected in the actress known for lowbrow comedy and the Austrian-born Waltz leaping to fame with his first big Hollywood role. It was an election day that demonstrated starkly how far the country, a rare democracy in the Middle East, has come since the last nationwide parliamentary vote in December 2005. Instead of unified sectarian parties playing strictly to their Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish voters, the political blocs contesting the election were much more fractured and made at least some effort to cross over into other sects. Whereas only party names were known in the 2005 ballot—in order to protect candidates from assassination—this time cities were plastered with candidates' faces on posters as Iraqis voted for individual people. authorization from the General Assembly," Cuccinelli wrote. The Republican advised college governing boards to "take appropriate actions to bring their policies in conformance with the law." Jon Blair, chief executive officer of the gay rights group Equality Virginia, said Cuccinelli's "radical actions are putting Virginia at risk of losing both top students and faculty, and discouraging prospective ones from coming here." Biology: Third Edition from Bob Jones University Press delivers a religious ultimatum to young readers and parents, warning in its "History of Life" chapter that a "Christian worldview...is the only correct view of reality; anyone who rejects it will not only fail to reach heaven but also fail to see the world as it truly is." When the AP asked about that passage, university spokesman Brian Scoles said the sentence made it into the book because of an editing error and will be removed from future editions. The size of the business of homeschool texts isn't clear because the textbook industry is fragmented and privately held publishers don't give out sales numbers. Slatter said home-school material sales reach about $1 billion annually in the United States. EWS ODDITIES CRYING OVER SPRAYED MILK FAMILY VALUES STEAL, SCRATCH, WIN Green Bay used two vacation days and camped out for 43 hours to make sure her grandson would be first in line for the 2010 opening of a Stevens Point ice-cream landmark. Belts' Soft Serve opened for the year Friday at II a.m. Thanks to grandma, 6-year-old Brayden Banks placed the first order. The Stevens Point Journal said Cuestas arrived Wednesday at 4 p.m. She planned to spend the night in her car but after locking her keys in the car, she instead slept in the Belts bathroom. Brayden arrived Thursday morning. The two passed the last 24 hours playing games, reading and drawing. Cuestas said the wait was worth it. She said making memories with her grandson is priceless. OWENSBORO, Ky.—A woman in jail for public intoxication was accused of assaulting a jailer by squirting breast milk at her. WYMT-TV reported that a 31-yearold woman was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. As she was changing into an inmate uniform, she squirted breast milk into the face of a female deputy who was with her. BARTOW, Fla.—The Polk County Sheriff's Office reported that a 22-year-old man stole $70 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets from a Circle K store on Sunday. One of the tickets revealed a $50 prize. When he went back to the store on Monday to claim the money, a clerk who was aware of the theft called the authorities. DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE STEVENS POINT, Wis.—Michelle Cuestas of ANKARA, Turkey—A strong earthquake, with a preliminary magnitude of 6, hit eastern Turkey Monday, an official said. Gov. Muammer Erol said the victims were from the small village of Okcular, where the earthquake knocked down houses. CNN Turk television said rescue teams dispatched to the area were working to save six people trapped under rubble. The quake, centered near the village of Basyurt, was followed by a 4.1 aftershock. Advertising 801-581-7041 News 801-581-NEWS Fax 801-581-FAXX EDITOR IN CHIEF: Rachel Hanson rhanson@chronicle.utah.edu MANAGING EDITOR: Sara Copeland s.copeland@chronicle.utah.edu PRODUCTION MANAGER: Alyssa Whitney a.whitney@chronicle.utah.edu ASST. PRODUCTION MANAGER: Rebecca Isbell NEWS EDITOR: Michael McFall m.mcfall@chronicle.utah.edu ASST. NEWS EDITOR: Trent Lowe OPINION EDITOR: Craig Blake Suspected gunman killed outside Walmart in Texas c.blake@chronicle.utah.edu SPORTS EDITOR: Paige Fieldsted pfieldsted@chronicle.utah.edu COMMERCE, Texas—A man walked into a Walmart in Texas carrying at least two guns before engaging in a shootout with police outside the store, authorities said. The man was killed and an offduty officer in the store who had tried to stop him was injured. 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Federal statistics from 2007 show 83 percent of home-schooling parents want to give their children "religious or moral instruction." Two of the best-selling biology textbooks stack the deck against evolution, said some science educators who reviewed sections of the books at the request of The Associated Press. "I feel fairly strongly about this. These books are promulgating lies to kids," said Jerry Coyne, an ecology and evolution professor at the University of Chicago. The textbook publishers defend their books as well-rounded lessons on evolution and its shortcomings. One of the books doesn't attempt to mask disdain for Darwin and evolutionary science, however. Rain and snow 39°/38° Earthquake shakes Turkey Top home-school texts based in Christianity, dismiss evolution LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her io-year-old's biology lessons. Mule's daughter Elizabeth excels at science and has been studying tarantulas since she was 5. But she watched Elizabeth's excitement turn to confusion when they reached the evolution section of the book from Apologia Educational Ministries, which disputed Charles Darwin's theory. "I thought she was going to have a coronary," Mule said of her daughter, who is now 16 and taking college courses in Houston. "She's like, `This is not true!'" Christian-based materials dominate a growing home-school education market that encompasses more than 1.5 million students in the U.S. •2010 Middle East Conference Film Screening: Waltz with Bashir: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ Post Theater •College of Architecture + Planning Spring 2010 Lecture Series - Jill Stoner, UC Berkeley: 5:30 p.m. @Tanner Humanities Building •Consumer Information Contest: 6 a.m. to 11:55 p.m. @ fcs.utah.edu •Wind Ensemble: 7:30 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall •David P. Gardner Lecture: Gulliver's Troubles: Obama and America in the Middle East: 7 p.m. @ Jewish Community Center Weather from the department of atmospheric sciences: http://foreostutah.edu Va. AG: Colleges can't ban gay discrimination RICHMOND, Va.—Virginia's attorney general has advised the state's public colleges that they don't have the authority to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, saying only the General Assembly has that power. The letter sent by Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli to state college presidents and other officials Thursday drew swift criticism from Democrats and gay rights activists. Cuccinelli said the legislature has repeatedly refused to exercise • Glia Club: 11:45 a.m. @ Health Sciences Education Building Room 2680 9 Tuesday Iraqi voters undaunted by deadly attacks BAGHDAD—Iraqis defied insurgents who lobbed hand grenades at voters and bombed a polling station Sunday in an attempt to intimidate those taking part in elections that will determine whether their country can overcome deep sectarian divides as U.S. forces prepare to leave. The conclusion of the vote, however, did not spell an immediate end to political uncertainty. It could be days until results come in, and with the fractured nature of Iraqi politics, forming a government may take months. Sunnis and Shiites seemed united in one way Sunday—defiance in the face of violence. Many came out Rain and snow 47°/36° 59 il 57 56 60 61 62 67 68 70 71 63 64 65 il 111 PUZZLE BY KEVIN G. 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